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Two months after the Cleveland Rising summit, corporate, community and civic leaders are working on ways to implement the ideas and proposals brought up by attendees. Working groups developed at the summit have continued to meet as often as once a week, according to Don Graves, head of corporate responsibility and community relations for KeyBank.

Patriot Pay would offer employers a payroll tax credit to encourage temporary bonuses to essential workers — up to $12 an hour on top of their wages.

The impact of climate change is vast: rising sea levels, climbing temperatures and more severe storms. These problems stretch beyond the coasts and...

Cincinnati Children's is among four U.S. sites participating in a global clinical trial for a possible COVID-19 vaccine.

Cleveland Housing Court is postponing evictions and other matters as judges across Northeast Ohio scale back the number of hearings amid the coronavirus pandemic. Judge W. Moná Scott signed an order last week pausing all civil housing cases for the next 30 days, except for emergencies. The clerk won’t be accepting new filings until April 20 and court-supervised move-outs are suspended until then, as well. Scott also rescheduled hearings in criminal cases for 30 days from their previously assigned date.

Over 468,000 Ohioans have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks, that’s nearly a third more than the total number filed last year. The coronavirus…

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Updated 5:00 p.m., Thursday, March 12, 2020 Cleveland Clinic can now test for the coronavirus without sending specimens to an outside lab. Clinic officials called this a game changer because they can now get tests results in hours, instead of waiting days. The clinic’s pathology lab director Brian Rubin said they are able to run about 500 specimens a day and hope to ramp up to 1000 per day by next week.

Merkel put herself under self-quarantine after learning that her doctor had tested positive for COVID-19.

Ohio’s delayed primary has Geneva-on-the-Lake and neighboring Township Park reassessing options for halting severe erosion along Lake Erie. The park service has a levy on the ballot that would aid in that effort, but the final vote on measure now won’t come until June.